A Georgia family is mourning a teenager who died while trying to save his friend in an icy lake.
Koren Brooks, 16, was playing with four friends on top of what they believed was a frozen Ellison Lake near the Lakeside Vista Apartments in the Atlanta suburb of Kennesaw on Dec. 28 when it started to crack underneath them.
A neighbor who witnessed the tragedy said he thought nothing of the teenagers playing on the ice atop the bed of water that did not appear deep until he heard screams.
“It looked pretty sturdy at first, so I didn’t think much of it,” Alex Pollard told FOX 5.
However, according to the neighbor, two of the teenagers fell through into the frigid water and got trapped in the ice.
“One of the kids was holding on to the other one,” said Pollard, who then yelled for his roommate to call 911 as he was carrying groceries from his car.
Koren took action to save his friend, who first responders pulled out of the water. However, rescuers did not…
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